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USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 144
 
MS Appellation:HM 144 (Manly and Rickert)
Title:Canterbury Tales (part)
Author:Chaucer, Lydgate and Burgh
Contents:Miscellany including Chaucer's Melibeus and the Monk's Tale, Lydgate's Cherle and Byrde and Hors Sheep and Goos
Language:English
Date Range:1475-1500
Scribal Hands:
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Material:Paper
No of Folios:iv + 151
Page Size:290 x 200
Frame:Ruled in dry-point
Writing Space:190 x 137 approx.
Paragraph Marks:Red paraphs and underlining in red ink also.
Flourished Initials:Red with no flourishing
Further Information:Lister Matheson says that this scribe also copied London, Lambeth Palace, MS 84 and Oxford, Trinity College MS 29.
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